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Myles 2023-09-19 02:34:43
Like the White Mansion family, another black director who was previously talented was rubbed off by the biographical movie [Oscar] and the heavy theme [Oscar]. This one is better, the use of several soundtracks and the setting of several scenes can still be It's eye-catching, and the unreserved display of cruelty and violence is still McQueen's taste. Unfortunately, the disappearance of the sense of time and the imbalance in the depiction of deep suffering make the film lose the emotional...
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Jaquelin 2023-09-03 05:58:07
The most shocking scene in this film is: the blues sung by the blacks when they were buried for the slave laborers who died suddenly. This is the chant they hum during their labor. In the play, the protagonists often pretend to be different and ignore them. Qianfan, lying down in the mud seemed like an instant, he was completely desperate and couldn't help singing, and finally realized that in the years without urgent hope, only relying on the soul to save. Why are R&B and soul touching? ?...
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Carmela 2023-08-19 13:20:54
Compared with the director's previous work, "Slave" is more neat and less innovative. For me, this movie is too bland and procrastinating. I still like the Steve McQueen who made...
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Burdette 2023-08-10 19:58:22
Narrative tension and character acting are excellent. But the problem...it's too much like a classical drama rather than a re-enactment of the real story that its movie scenes show. The choice of words in many character interactions goes beyond the sentence-making level of thinking that an illiterate slave may have, such as how the male protagonist and the female slave dispute how to express their sadness, and the female slave scolded the shark "Being blinded by your own covetousness" "!...
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Berenice 2023-07-20 17:18:32
Sure enough, it will win an Oscar, but it's not my favorite movie. Too Right Too Tall is a safe bet, but at the expense of style and power, Nebraska is just the...
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Oma 2023-07-20 03:52:29
However, without loss and without brilliance, it only describes the process of Solomon's enslavement. I'm not sure if McQueen felt that ditching the superfluous stunt would be a more faithful representation of this hellish journey. Still recognizable some of the pre/previous work's visual style and mise-en-scene. For example, compared with ordinary biopic directors, he still has a keen observation on the visual effects of the terroir and hydrology in the south, but there is no common ground...
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Thurman 2023-07-04 19:10:02
The film is narrated from the perspective of black slaves, showing the cruelty and ruthlessness of white people, which reminds me of Doris Lessing's first novel "The Grass Is Singing", which is precisely the opposite narrative to the film. The psychological state of cutting in, despising and fearing black slaves is very delicately...
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Lottie 2023-06-30 03:00:19
A well-established theme with bright...
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Annette 2023-06-18 06:37:00
like to watch this kind of...
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Kole 2023-05-28 04:39:51
I didn't even hold out until Pete came...
12 Years a Slave Comments
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Edwin Epps: If something rubs you wrongly, I offer you the opportunity to speak on it.
Bass: [exhales] Well, you ask plainly, so I will tell you plainly. What amused me just then was your concern for my wellbeing in this heat when, quite frankly, the condition of your laborers...
Edwin Epps: The condition of my laborers?
Bass: It is horrid.
Edwin Epps: The hell?
[chuckles]
Bass: It's all wrong. All wrong, Mr. Epps.
Edwin Epps: They ain't hired help. They're my property.
Bass: You say that with pride.
Edwin Epps: I say it as fact.
Bass: If this conversation concerns what is factual and what is not, then it must be said that there is no justice nor righteousness in their slavery. But you do open up an interesting question. What right have you to your niggers, when you come down to the point?
Edwin Epps: What right?
Bass: Mmm
Edwin Epps: I bought 'em. I paid for 'em.
Bass: Well, of course you did, and the law says you have the right to hold a nigger. But begging the law's pardon, it lies. Suppose they pass a law taking away your liberty, making you a slave. Suppose.
Edwin Epps: That ain't a supposable case.
Bass: Laws change, Epps. Universal truths are constant. It is a fact, a plain and simple fact, that what is true and right is true and right for all. White and black alike.
Edwin Epps: You comparing me to a nigger, Bass?
Bass: I'm only asking, in the eyes of God, what is the difference?
Edwin Epps: You might as well ask what the difference is between a white man and a baboon.
[chuckles]
Edwin Epps: I seen one of them critters in Orleans. Know just as much as any nigger I got.
Bass: Listen, Epps, these niggers are human beings. If they are allowed to climb no higher than brute animals, you and men like you will have to answer for it. There is an ill, Mr. Epps. A fearful ill resting upon this nation. And there will be a day of reckoning yet.
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Ford: What is the price for the ones Platt and Eliza?
Freeman: A thousand for Platt; he is a nigger of talent. Seven hundred for Eliza. My fairest price.
Ford: You will accept a note?
Freeman: Always from you, Mr. Ford.
